Andrea Campbell

Andrea Joy Campbell (born June 11, 1982) is an American lawyer and politician who is serving as the attorney general of Massachusetts. Campbell is a former member of the Boston City Council. On the city council, she represented District 4, which includes parts of Boston's Dorchester, Mattapan, Jamaica Plain, and Roslindale neighborhoods. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the council in November 2015 and assumed office in January 2016. She served as president of the council from January 2018 until January 2020. Campbell unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Boston in 2021, placing third in the nonpartisan primary election behind Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu, the latter of whom would go on to win the general election. In 2022, Campbell announced her candidacy in that year’s election for attorney general of Massachusetts. Campbell was the first black woman to qualify for the ballot in a statewide election in Massachusetts . Winning the Democratic Party’s nomination with a sizable win in the Democratic primary, Campbell won the general election by a large margin. In January 2023, she was sworn-in as attorney general, becoming the first black woman to hold the office and only the second black person to hold it, preceded only by Edward Brooke. Early life and education Campbell and her twin brother Andre were born in Boston, Massachusetts. They have an older brother named Alvin Jr. Soon after she was born, her birth father, Alvin Campbell Sr., was sentenced to an eight year prison term. When Campbell was only eight-months-old, her birth mother, Roberta, was killed in a car accident while driving to visit Campbell's birth father in prison. This forced Campbell and her brothers to spend time residing in foster care and with various relatives. Campbell refers to Lois and Ron Savage, an aunt and uncle who played a major role in her upbringing, as being her parents (her "mom" and "dad"). Campbell did not know her birth father until she was eight, at which time he was released from prison.